Payment Gateway by Currency

[codemaster2008]

Hi;

 

I remember I asked that question "a few versions ago" but since lot's of new features are being added maybe it already possible. I hope someone can tell me about it.

 

What i need is tell WHMCS which payment gateway works for which currency.

So, customers that are billed in US Dolars will see PayPal and Authorize.NET, customers who choose Euro, will see other payment gateways and so on.

 

Thanks in advance.

[WHMCS John]

The search tool is a wonderful thing: http://forum.whmcs.com/showthread.php?t=29566

[codemaster2008]

Hey John;

 

I'm sorry about that man, I think I wasn't clear enough.

I didn't bother to look for that thread because I knew how it ended: with template customization, which becomes a problem every time I have to apply an update.

 

With a clean installation, with no template customizations at all, updates are so much easier.

 

So, back to my original question, I'd like to know if it's already possible via WHMCS settings and not template customization.

 

If you think about that, the current multi currency scheme doesn't help that much and as an Engineer I don't see why not make this as system settings, considering it's not that hard (notice that I'm not insinuating it's easy).

 

Here is just one of the many problems of the current multi currency and gateways (it came to my mind but i didn't test it though):

 

Let's use USD and BRL (Brazilian Real) and assume the rates are:

 

1 USD = 2 BRL

 

So, "Product A" Prices are:

 

USD: US$10

BRL: R$20

 

When the customer open the invoice there is a few Gateways to choose from and he can get lost considering that Authorize.NET doesn't take BRL and the brazilian gateway doesn't take USD. It's start to get ugly because we have to add descriptions to the gateway names and hope the user will understand it, e.g:

 

- Credit Card (Users outside Brazil)

- Credit Card and All Brazilian Payments (For BRL only)

 

Another thing is that smart users can end up paying half of the bill doing this:

 

Choose USD while ordering, so the invoice total will be $10.

Go to the inoice and choose the Brazilian gateway which only process BRL, so it will receive an total of "$10" but will threat it as R$10.

 

A call back will be sent saying the transaction was processed and an total of "10" was received.

The invoice is checked as payed.

 

At the end, after the currency exchange the user endup paying US$5 and not US$10 because he actually paid R$10, and here is the exchange:

 

BRL$ 10 = USD$ 5

 

I'm not sure what is there now to avoid this kind of scenario and also I'm not sure if it can really happen in a production server with the current gateway modules, however everything could be a lot more easier if the views (gateways and a few other information) was based on the user pre-selected currency (also change the currency should't be something easy to do).

 

Just my 2 cents.

[xuser]

Please let me know if you were able to find any solutions to this?

We are into same boat.

[lukewd]

also looking for a solution to this...